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600,000 piece BILLBOARD magazine music collectibles/ephemera as INVENTORY SALE only.

Restaurant & Entertainment VenueFor sale in Stoughton, MassachusettsEst. 1999

$450,000

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About this sale

600,000 piece BILLBOARD magazine music collectibles/ephemera as INVENTORY SALE only.

What's included

600,000 piece BILLBOARD magazine music collectibles/ephemera as INVENTORY SALE only. Seller is retiring. This inventory provides a unique, once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity for qualified person or persons. Sell Worldwide ONLINE, add to an existing inventory, or sell in a brick and mortar retail setting. This world class inventory has produced and performed on the eBay platform ONLY - (it) has never been exposed to any other selling channel NOR any form of social media. This entire collection is well- suited for immediate, meaningful and impactful gains via its' current platform as well as other online channels and social media. Culled mainly from Billboard magazine, this inventory features a strong presence of full page (11"x 14" and 8"x 11") original promotional ads, properly trimmed and ready for mounting/framing, Billboard magazine trade articles/trade images and smaller advertisements that can be sold individually or in groupings, and Billboard magazine music charts featuring every stripe and genre of music (supersize - large - and small size) that have appeared in the magazine over the past six decades. The inventory also contains healthy contributions from rival music business magazines Cash Box and Record World (both of which are now defunct). All items in this inventory are ORIGINAL - turn any piece over, and there will print or images on the reverse side. For a 25,000 PIECE SNAPSHOT VIEW of this inventory, go to Ebay and type in search: "600,000-piece MUSIC BUSINESS COLLECTIBLES Inventory - Career Opportunity". Click on our store and then sort as desired through the approximately 25,000 items that we currently have listed. The entire collection is heavily focused on the years 1965 through present but also includes contributions from the 1940s, 1950s, and earlier 1960s. *all numbers reflected in this item description are valid to within a 2% degree of accuracy. 100,000 promotional ads (11"x14"/10"x13"/8"x11") which are trimmed, alphabetized, and ready to post. 30,000 promotional ads which are trimmed but require alphabetization. 28,000 promotional song charts. All are trimmed and would require organization according to buyer's desired specs (chronological, genre, or artist) 75,000 trade articles/images/adverts ranging in size from 2"x 3" to 10"x 7" and larger. Trimmed, alphabetized, and ready to post. 120,000 trade articles/images/adverts which have been separated by years. All are trimmed and would need to be further documented via alphabetization. 10,000 movie/video promotional ads. Trimmed - need to be alphabetized. (230,000) articles/adverts/images/charts to be culled from remaining 5,000 Billboard magazines. These 5,000 magazines 3have been harvested for a majority of their full-page ads and to a lesser amount of clippings and charts. - The remaining pages will produce an average of 45-50 items per issue. Also, a small amount of full page ads (perhaps 8,000-10,000) most likely remain. ALSO included in this inventory approximately 7,000-10,000 miscellaneous MUSIC/movie ephemera items: album flats - pamphlets - record company info sheets - post cards - publicity photos - booklets - retail promo informers - marketing informational sheets - some sealed cassette singles from '90's - a handful of record company large promotional posters - record company promo 2-sided decorator flats - promo stickers - music artist postage stamps plus much more. This inventory, in its entirety, is an absolute treasure trove of Music Collectible ephemera and peripheral memorabilia. Also included are 20 plastic crates of (empty) legal size hanging file folders (approximately 1,500 folders) for bulk inventory separation and alphabetizing. Packaging: 30% of the inventory has been prepped for shipping and is housed in 17"x14"x11" hard shell plastic stackable crates. Seller will pack remaining inventory within 30 days of finalization of sale. The crates will then be placed into boxes, sealed, and marked. A corresponding inventory-to-box list will be included. The plastic crates are interlocking and can be stacked 8 high vertically in an average 150 square foot area with an EIGHT foot ceiling. The initial estimate for total boxes to ship is somewhere between 115-130 boxes. The estimated total weight of this inventory is between 4.500-5,000 pounds. Space required to comfortably store, manipulate and package this inventory would be approximately 500 square feet. Added value includes the following: 30,000 current-platform e-addresses - any or all fixtures (if wanted) as seen in images as well as some not seen - set of 35-50 print templates designed to cover all inventory items as well as responsive business questions and logistics - surplus shipping/packaging materials Shipping: buyer is wholly responsible for shipping costs and arrangements for entire inventory as well as any fixtures. Local pick-up would be an option via your own carrier. Cleared PAYMENT-IN-FULL required 30 days prior to packing/shipment of inventory. Seller will consider a limited time-sensitive assist and advise contract for a negotiated fee. In-person inspection available by appointment only following financial review. This is an INVENTORY SALE ONLY.

The numbers

Approx. Inventory Value
$12,000,000
Approximate FF&E
$100

Details

1999
Established · 27 yrs
Asset Sale
Sale Type
Restaurant & Entertainment Venue
Business type

Where it is · Stoughton, Massachusetts

Somewhere in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The exact address is not on this listing.

Somewhere in Stoughton, Massachusetts

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